David O'Mahony: I want my son to know time is on his side

Well-read and tech-interested in a school system where sport is too frequently the measure of success, he has his niche of friends and is quite staunchly his own person

As one of the youngest in his entire year, much as I was when I went to school back in the Stone Age, Twin 2 is still very much hovering on the cusp of actual childhood and whatever passes for teenage angst these days. Picture: iStock

And just like that, he was done. My son — Twin 2, I’ll call him here, for the sake of his privacy — graduated from primary school this week.

In the end, it sort of snuck up on us. I mean, yes, we knew the date some time beforehand, and even roughly the time of the ceremony, but there’s a difference between knowing something is going to happen and experiencing it happening in real time.